The Midterms Showed Democrats Don’t Need to Pander on Crime The Midterms Showed Democrats Don’t Need to Pander on Crime
The Democratic Party shouldn’t panic over the issue.
Nov 29, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Manhattan DA Finally Keeps His Campaign Promise Not to Prosecute a Domestic Violence Victim The Manhattan DA Finally Keeps His Campaign Promise Not to Prosecute a Domestic Violence Victim
Alvin Bragg announced on Friday that he was no longer convinced of Tracy McCarter's guilt. McCarter was arrested for the death of her husband on March 2, 2020.
Nov 21, 2022 / Victoria Law
I’m Not Leaving Twitter. Neither Should You. I’m Not Leaving Twitter. Neither Should You.
Twitter is an effective tool for challenging the status quo and powerful people and institutions. That’s why Elon Musk snatched it up.
Nov 16, 2022 / Olayemi Olurin
Kiribati’s Disorder in the Court Kiribati’s Disorder in the Court
The Pacific island nation's attempted deportation of an Australian-born judge shows how the decolonizing world’s reliance on foreign-born judges threatens nascent democracies.
Nov 15, 2022 / Pete McKenzie
India Spellman Was Wrongfully Convicted When She Was Just 17 India Spellman Was Wrongfully Convicted When She Was Just 17
That was over a decade ago. When will she walk free?
Nov 8, 2022 / Alyssa Oursler and Anna DalCortivo
Meet the Woman Leading the Charge Against Bail Reform in New York Meet the Woman Leading the Charge Against Bail Reform in New York
The murder of her son radicalized Madeline Brame. Now, the right has embraced her as the muse of the movement to quash the most progressive bail reform law in the US.
Nov 8, 2022 / Sam Russek
Can a District Attorney Dismantle Mass Incarceration and Fight for Gender Justice? Can a District Attorney Dismantle Mass Incarceration and Fight for Gender Justice?
Civil rights lawyer and anti-carceral feminist Pamela Price might just win the Alameda County DA seat—but can she resolve its contradictions?
Nov 1, 2022 / Piper French
How the Courts Stack the Odds Against the Innocent How the Courts Stack the Odds Against the Innocent
A new book by Daniel Medwed examines the reasons the wrongfully convicted find it so hard to prove their innocence.
Nov 1, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jed S. Rakoff
How to Talk About Public Safety How to Talk About Public Safety
It’s not an either/or proposition.
Oct 31, 2022 / Svante Myrick
Why Isn’t Kathy Hochul Running Away With Her Race for Reelection? Why Isn’t Kathy Hochul Running Away With Her Race for Reelection?
Republican Lee Zeldin is pro-Trump, anti-choice, and running in a state Joe Biden carried by 23 percent—yet recent polls put him within the statistical margin of error of pulling o...
Oct 27, 2022 / Ross Barkan